On 6/23/2008 4:52 PM, Barrett wrote: > Here are your main players. > No they are not free. > > http://www.vbulletin.com/ > http://www.ubbcentral.com/ > http://www.photopost.com/
The last one doesn't appear to be forum software, but a photo gallery that integrates with a forum. I would not necessarily agree that these are the "main players" though. vBulletin is definitely up there, and is a great package, if a bit overpriced, IMO. phpBB is quite a bit more common than UBB.threads, and from what I've seen, with version 3, it's probably more capable than UBB.threads, too. From what I've seen, I'd say that phpBB 3 is probably the most feature-filled and capable of the _free_ forum software packages out there. It also has a large community of developers making mods and themes for it, which would be useful both for improving the forum's capabilities AND for getting help with questions that Patrick might come up with that fall outside this email list's scope. As for a bigger picture of the available forum choices, here are lots of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(ASP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_internet_forum_software_(other) There are numerous choices at all price levels. phpBB appears relatively easy to modify themes for, adding whatever styling you'd like, though I haven't done much of it myself. It's basically like designing a website, but it's more modular, and the appropriate keywords need to be in place to plug the content in. I recently did something similar with WordPress, where I basically took an existing website and copied/pasted the appropriate parts into a basic WP theme, and made some semi-minor changes to the CSS file. A forum is a bit more structured, but the same principles should apply, I'd think. -- Erik Harris http://www.eHarrisHome.com - AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172 - Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu-silat.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
